Lecture notes
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Found in 106 Collections and/or Records:
St. Clair Streett notes on the lectures on Benjamin Smith Barton
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/121
Scope and Contents
Student notes on lectures of Benjamin Smith Barton on botany and materia medica at University of Pennsylvania, 12 November 1811 to 22 February 1812, by St. Clair Streett. Subjects are considered under headings: astringents, tonics, stimulants, narcotics, conifera, siliquosa, alliaciae, errhines, and sialogogues. Includes observations on medical uses of opium.
Dates:
1811 - 1812
T. Schöninger notes on the lectures of J. M. Chelius
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/205
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Volume contains notes taken by T. Schöninger on the lectures of J. M. Chelius on ophthalmology and diseases of the eye. Major subjects include cataract and diseases of the conjunctiva.
Dates:
1829
Theodore F. Breck lecture notes
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/272
Scope and Contents
Theodore F. Breck's lecture notes on skin diseases were taken
at the K. K. Allgemeine Krankenhaus in Vienna, Austria, during
1868 and 1869. The lecturer was dermatologist Ferdinand Hebra
(1816-1880), the author of numerous works on skin diseases.
Hebra's lectures dealt with the identification, classification,
and treatment of skin diseases. Breck's notes also contain
approximately thirty different prescriptions for medicines and
salves to treat diseases of the skin.Also...
Dates:
1868 - 1869
Thomas J. Shivers notes on lectures from the University of Pennsylvania
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/185
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Notes taken by Thomas Shivers, Jr., on lectures of John Syng Dorsey on materia medica and Nathaniel Chapman on practice of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, 1817. Bulk concern Dorsey’s lectures (nos. 1-25 in vol. 1 and 26-45 in vol. 2). After discussion of nutrition and disease, Dorsey describes medications and their uses according to arrangement of emetics, cathartics, diuretics, antilithics, diaphoretics, sialogogues, emmenagogues, and anthelmintics. Volume 2 contains brief notes on...
Dates:
1817
Thomas Justus Dunott notes on the lectures of Thomas D. Mütter
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/239
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Student notes by Thomas J. Dunott on surgical lectures of Thomas D. Mütter at Jefferson Medical College, 1852. Notes interleaved with Mütter’s Syllabus of the course of lectures on the principles and practice of surgery. Dunott’s notes concern: amputation; diseases and fractures of bones; inflammation; and wounds and injuries, specifically of head and abdomen. Includes occasional notes on John Kearsley Mitchell’s lectures on practice of medicine.
Dates:
1852
Thomas Parke notebook
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/099
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Volume of Parke’s notes, 1767, on Pierre Joseph Macquer’s Elements of the theory and practice of
chymistry (1764), considering elements and their interactions; Geoffroy’s table of comparative affinities;
and metals and their ores. Volume also includes Parke’s notes of examination questions on anatomy and
chemistry given to graduates of the College of Philadelphia’s Medical School in 1769. Examiners include
Adam Kuhn, John Morgan, and William Shippen.
Dates:
1767 - 1769
Thomas Ruston papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/137
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This small collection of manuscripts, 1764-1802, documents the
education, medical career, and personal life of Thomas Ruston.
Items in the collection relating to Ruston's medical education
at the University of Edinburgh include notes on two lectures
on the pulse delivered by William Cullen with drafts of three
letters by Ruston describing his affairs, 1764-1765; petitions
signed by the students of the university, protesting the lack
of regulations in granting degrees, 1764; and an...
Dates:
1764 - 1802
Thomas W. Bawdin notes on lectures from the University of Pennsylvania
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/201
Scope and Contents
Contains notes on lectures delivered by Nathaniel Chapman on the practice of medicine and John Syng Dorsey on materia medica in the Department of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, 1817 January 7-February 12.
Dates:
1817
William D. Frazier papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/288
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The William D. Frazier Papers, spanning 1874 to 1984, contain
professional papers relating to Frazier's career as a surgeon
and specialist in occupational medicine; personal papers; papers
of his father, neurosurgeon Charles H. Frazier; and numerous
photographs. Included among William D. Frazier's professional papers is correspondence,
reports of operative experience, and other items concerning
his work at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
and the Hospital of...
Dates:
1874 - 1984; Majority of material found within 1913 - 1963
William E. Horner notes on the lectures of Benjamin Rush
Item
Identifier: 10a 283
Scope and Contents
One volume (457 leaves) on notes on the physiology lectures of Benjamin Rush delivered at the University of Pennsylvania. Topics cover visiting the sick, the pulse, animal heat, motion, respiration, circulation, the nervous system, sensation, muscles and tendons, sympathy, senses, operations and pleasures of the human mind, digestion, lymphatic system, glands, excretions, nutrition, peculiarities of the sexes, and generation.
Dates:
1813